No. I said "dam close" as fast. I am not talking about Squids twisting the throttle between stoplights and seeing which one pulls harder. Out to the real world-

In the real world my 2011 GSXR750 lap times are faster on the track. This applies to Laguna Seca and Infineon too. The Suzuki handling is far better. This applies to liter bikes too. I sold my R1. The R1 gets out gunned in just about every liter bike category. The new gixxer is faster for me at least.

So, don't want to bash Yamaha....but it's time for them to join weight watchers and sharpen everything up here. There's a problem with the torque.

No. I said "dam close" as fast. I am not talking about Squids twisting the throttle between stoplights and seeing which one pulls harder. Out to the real world-

In the real world my 2011 GSXR750 lap times are faster on the track. This applies to Laguna Seca and Infineon too. The Suzuki handling is far better. This applies to liter bikes too. I sold my R1. The R1 gets out gunned in just about every liter bike category. The new gixxer is faster for me at least.

So, don't want to bash Yamaha....but it's time for them to join weight watchers and sharpen everything up here. There's a problem with the torque.

REDESIGN PLEASE.

So you joined an R1 forum for what reason....and the R1 gets out gunned in every category of a mag...but it sure as shit takes a lot of podium finishes in AMA and others

Its a better bike than the 2009 generation in my humble soft spoken opinion.

As you can see I dropped a lot on it to make it perform very well.
It can run kinda close to the current crop of liter bikes out.
I don't know why- but the current gen R1 didn't even feel like it was a liter bike. Yamaha is adding complex ( and Heavy) stuff to their R1 when they should be concentrating on how to make it lighter and dance quicker side to side. It's a move out on a tangent and I hope they come back to the center for 2014.

im not saying the r1 is the best thing ever....but for those of us who enjoy it and own one....we like it. if Suzuki floats your boat, good luck.im sure every liter bike will be pushing 180 hp stock and weight feather weight soon. im sure yamaha will progress as always....market hype is also what you read in magazines shootouts!

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